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Paul Farmer

Born

in North Adams, Massachusetts, The United States

October 26, 1959

Died

February 21, 2022

Website

http://www.pih.org

Genre

Development, Global Health

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Paul Farmer was an American medical anthropologist and physician. He was Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School and Founding Director of Partners In Health. Among his books are Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (1999), The Uses of Haiti (1994), and AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame (1992). Farmer was the recipient of numerous awards, including a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award and the Margaret Mead Award for his contributions to public anthropology.

Farmer was born in the U.S.A. in 1959. He married Didi Bertrand Farmer in 1996 and they had three children. He died in Rwanda in 2022, at the age of 62. ...more

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	Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer, Amartya Sen (Foreword) 4.28 avg rating — 4,890 ratings — published 2003 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues 4.11 avg rating — 2,944 ratings — published 1999 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History 4.04 avg rating — 1,396 ratings — published 2020 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Haiti: After the Earthquake 3.85 avg rating — 1,240 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation by Paul Farmer, Bill Clinton (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Jonathan L. Weigel (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 1,076 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame 4.21 avg rating — 864 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Uses of Haiti by Paul Farmer, Jonathan Kozol (Foreword), Noam Chomsky (Introduction) 4.24 avg rating — 592 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reimagining Global Health: An Introduction by Paul Farmer (Editor), Arthur Kleinman (Editor), Jim Yong Kim (Editor) 4.38 avg rating — 475 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader (Volume 23) (California Series in Public Anthropology) by Paul Farmer, Tracy Kidder (Foreword), Haun Saussy (Editor) 4.36 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women, Poverty, and AIDS: Sex, Drugs, and Structural Violence by Paul Farmer, Margaret Connors, Janie Simmons 4.42 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.”
― Paul Farmer

tags: humanity, wrong-with-the-world

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“It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.”
― Paul Farmer

tags: medicine, poverty, rights, science

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“Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. ”
― Paul Farmer

tags: capitalism, medicine, poverty, society, wealth

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